Political Science Research and Methods

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Science Research and Methods is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections83
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy47
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy37
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter33
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation26
Dynamic persuasion: decay and accumulation of partisan media persuasion21
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea21
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach20
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians19
Measuring inter-party communication: a transformer-based approach17
Local taxes and economic voting: evidence from city ballot measures17
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict16
Affective polarization and democratic erosion: evidence from a context of weak partisanship16
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office15
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes15
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed13
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM13
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies12
Improving studies of sensitive topics using prior evidence: an informative Bayesian approach for list experiments12
Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM12
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats11
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs11
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?11
The policy basis of group sentiments11
The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment10
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–198510
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?10
Do party leaders influence roll-call voting in congress?9
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections9
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence9
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects9
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans9
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization8
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election8
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data8
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda8
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences8
Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research8
Inequality, information, and income tax policy preferences in Austria and Germany7
Interactions among simultaneous elections7
Local elections do not increase local news demand7
Energy transition, financial markets and EU interventionism: lessons from the Ukraine crisis7
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise7
How voters respond to economic shocks from abroad6
Are rural attitudes just Republican?6
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties6
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements6
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation6
What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? Experimental and panel-based evidence from Ukraine in 20226
Modeling issue competence over time: a Bayesian framework for estimating dynamic issue ownership6
What can dual citizens teach us about political engagement?6
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States6
Participatory unilateralism: understanding Congress’s role in presidential unilateral policymaking6
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes6
Re-examining the effects of Western sanctions on democracy and human rights in the 21 st century6
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis6
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text6
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism6
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States5
The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism5
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?5
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text5
Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan5
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India5
When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion – ERRATUM5
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States5
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem5
Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections5
Analyzing the impact of events through surveys: formalizing biases and introducing the dual randomized survey design5
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland5
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th4
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity4
Income, education, and policy priorities4
Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias4
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs4
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments4
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 19454
Presidential policymaking, 1877–20204
The effects of forced versus selective exposure to propaganda in China4
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment4
Navigating the mismeasurement of intermediary variables in message-based experiments4
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China4
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
The shadow of social desirability bias: evidence from reassessing the sources of political trust in China4
How social desirability bias impacts the expression of emotions4
Propaganda to a cynical audience4
A matching theory perspective on legislative organization: assignment of committees3
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly3
The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost3
How strong are international standards in practice? Evidence from cryptocurrency transactions3
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States3
Campaign communication and legislative leadership3
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China3
Coalition policy in multiparty governments: whose preferences prevail3
Affective polarization and coalition signals3
What moves (spending) mood? The nature and origins of parallel public preferences3
Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties3
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation3
Polarization but not populism strengthens the association between presidential election results and emotions3
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era3
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement3
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment3
Laboratories of democratic renewal: explaining substantial improvement in the quality of democracy in the American States3
Institutionalizing the autocratic penalty away: fiscal rules, autocracy, and sovereign financial market access3
Measuring time preferences in large surveys3
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings3
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Measuring party loyalty2
When can individual partisanship be tempered? Mass behavior and attitudes across the COVID-19 pandemic2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged2
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messaging2
Strong state, weak enforcement: bureaucratic forbearance of China’s social insurance policies2
Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly?2
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland2
The making of the boy who cried wolf: fake news and media skepticism2
The impact of university attendance on partisanship2
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state2
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM2
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records2
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers2
Partners in government: politicians’ gender preferences in coalition formation2
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures2
Conditional relationships in dynamic models2
Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right2
Beyond the mean: how thinking about the distribution of public opinions reduces politicians’ perceptual errors2
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in central and Eastern Europe – ERRATUM2
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment2
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences2
Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy2
Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach2
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico2
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties2
Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity?2
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption2
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France2
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest2
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence2
Challenger entry and electoral accountability2
ecolRxC: Ecological inference estimation of R × C tables using latent structure approaches2
When do different systems of government lead to similar power-sharing? The case of government formation2
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Rebels in the house: Do anti-elitist parties vote differently?2
Criminal fragmentation in Mexico2
Promoting democracy in the context of terrorism: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso2
Public and expert preferences in survey experiments in foreign policy: evidence from parallel conjoint analyses2
The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election2
Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance2
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–20212
Backsliding by surprise: the rise of Chavismo1
How urban riots influence political behavior: vote choices after the 2011 London riots1
What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?1
Reducing attrition in phone-based panel surveys: best practices and semi-automation for survey workflows1
How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism1
Election symbols and vote choice: evidence from India1
The direct cost to voters of polling site closures and consolidation1
A foot out the door: what drives bureaucratic exit into lobbying careers?1
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?1
Explaining support for redistribution: social insurance systems and fairness1
Measuring interethnic marriage in Africa1
Competent legislators or mere pawns? Experimental evidence of attitudes toward gender quota politicians1
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM1
Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach1
Estimating the effect of intergroup contact over years: evidence from a youth program in Israel1
“Sleeping with the enemy”: partisanship and tolerance in online dating1
The distribution of hate speech and its implications for content moderation1
When legislators don't bring home the pork: the case of Philippine Senators1
Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians1
A Bayesian mixture model captures temporal and spatial structure of voting blocs within longitudinal referendum data1
Opportunistic rebel tactics in civil war: Evidence from Colombia1
Partisan conflict in nonverbal communication1
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism1
Belief in territorial indivisibility and public preferences for dispute resolution1
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities1
Facial finetuning: using pretrained image classification models to predict politicians’ success1
Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists1
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments1
Female mayors and violence against women: evidence from Mexico1
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe1
The comparative meaning of political space: a comprehensive modeling approach1
Beyond innumeracy: measuring public misperceptions about immigration1
Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems1
Civic associations, populism, and (un-)civic behavior: evidence from Germany1
A racial reckoning? racial attitudes in the wake of the murder of George Floyd1
(When) are lobbying expenditures a good proxy for lobbying activity?1
Fiscal opportunity coupled with political willingness? Unpacking the effects of TELs and partisan governments on income inequality in the American states, 1986–20201
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Media effects revisited: corporate scandals, partisan narratives, and attitudes toward cryptocurrency regulation1
Fine-tuned large language models can replicate expert coding better than trained coders: a study on informative signals sent by interest groups1
Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing1
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants? – ADDENDUM1
Red lines versus negotiables: how exposure to wartime violence influences support for peace settlements in Ukraine1
Measurement error when surveying issue positions: a MultiTrait MultiError approach1
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany1
Bayesian reasoning for qualitative replication analysis: Examples from climate politics1
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